Word: tooled
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...Harvard Idea Bank is not the first of its kind. MIT launched a tool with a design uncannily similar to Harvard’s several months ago as part of its attempt to cut operating expenses, recognizing that “the work to sculpt a stronger MIT will require collective wisdom and collaborative action...
...call—one ABC News commentator said that he wasn’t “sure how many laws that breaks, but I’m sure there are some”—the message that art and artists can be a powerful tool in influencing public political opinion came through loud and clear. Harvard made much the same statement last December, when President Drew Faust announced the release of the long-awaited Report of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts. “[W]e have, in relation to the arts, failed to foster...
...missing its idiot.” However, the Republican response was ill-timed and counterintuitive. In the aftermath of bloopers like George W.’s “Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?”, ridicule can work as a tool to damage the credulity of a leader. But when accusations of idiocy follow a politically neutral speech encouraging education, the arrows of insult fall short of their mark...
...Stanford’s A. Michael Spence. They were joined by Law School Professor Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca, a Founding Director of the National Program of Educational Informatics in Costa Rica. While much of the discussion centered around how technology could be deployed as a tool in international development, some time was also devoted to a range of issues including economic competition and regulation, policy implications of technology, climate control, and technological fluency. “You are either a part of the technological community or you are left out,” Fonseca told the audience...
...resolution that couched the same objective in much more engaging language: a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ) for the Middle East. Though the idea of a NWFZ for the region has been around since the 1970s, it has largely been the preserve of leftist groups like Greenpeace or a tool for pressuring Israel, the only Middle East nation believed to have nuclear weapons. But not only was the latest NFWZ resolution supported by Israel; it could also provide a tool for defusing the conflict over Iran's nuclear program. (See pictures of the world's worst nuclear disasters...